Italian union leaders tied to capitalist realities'

TOMORROW'S meeting between trade union leaders and Prime Minister Rumor to discuss reforms in housing, health, social services and transport, and price curbs, finds the union leaders already on the retreat.

Having cancelled the regional strikes planned in support of the demands in the expectation of a show of 'goodwill' from the government, they have allowed the parties of the centre-left elbow-room to block any important concessions.

Republican • Party leader La Malfa has repeated his request that employers' representatives should sit at the today, and is expected oo ainfor any council which didn't provide them with officecharges alleging various forms of corrupt behaviour have been brought against 57 people in the Palermo administration.

Virtually every branch of government is infected. The press, for simplicity's sake, lists the accused in alphabetical order by political Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and Republicans are represented in approximately the same proportions as in Rumor's government.

Included also are a generous sprinkling of Liberals — the Italian Liberal Party is rightwing and secular.

The announcement of the charges promises to raise political temperatures during the campaign for the June 7 regional elections, both in Sicily and nationally.

Two editions (For any two days you select) £1 for three months E4 a year agreed in principle to meet in Luxembourg on June 30 along with Britain and other Market candidates, Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns announced yesterday.

Besides Britain, Ireland, Denmark and Norway have also applied for membership of the European Community.

'DEMO' SENTENCES

A youth was sentenced to three months imprisonment at Marlborough Street, London, yesterday for his alleged part demonstration. nounce that while 'triangular' discussions are out, the government will meet with the employers 'in parallel' with the trade unions.

Economists in the office of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Economic Planning spent the weekend finalizing reports on the cost of the various reforms proposed.

Spending

And Socialist Minister of the Budget Giolitti, interviewed by the right-wing daily 'Corriere della Sera' went out of his way to emphasize the 'need' to control public spending.

'It is a waste of time', he seeds and hopes without calculating the financial requirements of each of them and thence what can be included in a "policy of the possible"; and this can only be done by keeping • clearly in view the national income and the distribution of resources.' A clear division of labour emerges.

While the union leaders, hypocritically open-minded towards the government, try to guide the massive strike movement towards the negotiating table, the government and the employers regain the confidence to insist on 'realism'.

No curbs Needless to say, Giolitti's 'policy of the possible' excludes from the outset nationalization or any curbs on the employers' powers.

This is the true content of the Stalinists' 'Italian road to socialism' by way of 'structural reforms'.

Refusing, during the enormous strikes of recent months, to make any preparation for a revolutionary struggle for power, they now enter negotiations which will be stage-managed from start to finish by the big monopolists.

And Giolitti-himself a Communist Party member until 1957—has pointed to the basic intentions of the employers: What we are faced with is not reforms in this or that field, but 'the reestablishment of the authority of the state; if this authority is eclipsed, then authoritarianism will grow'. Magnavox sacks fear closure 'THERE ARE lots of rum firm is going to close dow at Barking's American-ow: plant in East London, fol employees last Friday.

The decision on the redundancies, affecting mainly women workers, came from parent company Tennessee.

Mr Leslie Pearce, the personnel manager, said:

'Our schedule has been drastically reduced. All our work is only for export to America and due to the financial squeeze there it's more difficult for people to buy things.

'There is no indication that the factory will be closed completely as we are fully booked up with orders until the end of the year.' However, Magnavox workers are not so sure.

Factories leave

The position in the Barking area, here a few years ago factories vied with each other to employ women, has now completely changed. A Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4.

Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), 180b Clapham High Street, London, lours going round that the 'n', commented one worker ned Magnavox Electronics lowing the sacking of 290 BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT ber of factories have already left the area and the Jeyes factory will be leaving in the near future.

The redundancies at Magnavox-despite the full order books-means that the production of record players will be cut by half and 60 staff members will be sacked over the next four weeks.

drop out The Rothschild merchant banks in London and Paris have pulled out of the talks with IOS.

Rothschild's said yesterday that discussions with los Limited 'to try and find with other financial instituțions a solution to their present problem' had been discontinued.

The anti - working -'class we said that was than son to dissociate from Nixon'?

'Pressure'

The answer to our question even none other than Crunch ur race in Vienam Jack Askins, who that •despite all that tester, movement has note of al pressure, and in spite the decisions union, Labour Party Haroldaod TUC Wilson conlereis has not budged an inch'.

Wilson's visit to Nixon confirmed our worst expectations.

Contrarv to al Golan's beliefs, it his uad the visit s cement his alliance with imperialism warn Nixon of the need to fight the working class in united aulance. It must be said that Gollan's diversion succeed. "thousands of workers, inCradiss councils, shop-stewards many members Commullees like Hugh Scaniers, Our campaign showed for the first time That a cam paign run along principled class lines could evoke a big response from the class and that it was sible to mobilize tuals, artists and writers the struggle against Wilson's leadership.

The same lesson a same for ae Mey 1 strike.

The CP leaders opposed this movement too saying was "premature' instead resolution This. as we correctly indicated, was an mmunresolution did